Category Archives: People

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ at geopolitique.eu

Posted on October 10, 2022 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, ‘Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?’ A late text by Latour, published yesterday at geopolitique.eu I will begin with a text which will seem unusual: Jean Bollack’s translation from the beginning of Oedipus Rex when the priest is addressing … Continue reading →

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Spatial Delight – ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey

Posted on October 10, 2022 by stuartelden

A ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Masseyhttps://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/ Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society, and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour (1947-2022) [updated]

Posted on October 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Sorry to hear this news – Libération, L’Obs, Le Monde Update: I’ll add other links here – Radio France, France Bleu The Guardian obituary (and 2020 interview) Adrian Ivakhiv at Immanence; Graham Harman at Object-Orientated Philosophy Graham Harman, Bruno Latour: … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by stuartelden

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023

Posted on October 3, 2022 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023. Pre-order details at the University of Chicago Press site, who distribute HAU books. A classic text that develops one … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Posted on September 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023 Update: editor Sebastian Budgen discusses the book here.

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Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022 The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that … Continue reading →

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Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023

Posted on September 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023 The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by stuartelden

Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022 This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.  Territories can be … Continue reading →

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